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You may be interested in some recent updates to the  Historical Directories of England and Wales  collection, maintained by the University of Leicester Library. Post Office Bradford Directory, 1891  (Bradford: William Byles & Sons, 1891), 634. The collection is the largest freely available digitised collection of trade and street directories. The collection contains 689 directories, with at least one directory for every English and Welsh county for the 1850s, 1890s and 1910s. Searchable by name, place and occupation this is an essential tool for local, urban and family history. In 2019/20, we have: Restored the background pages, originally written by Andrew Hann  http://specialcollections.le.ac.uk/digital/collection/p16445coll4/custom/background Created a How to Search video  https://youtu.be/Ml3AAvoM0ac Created an online bibliography for scholarship using directories as a source  https://www.zotero.org/groups/2337777/trade_directori...

As part of the Doctoral College & Staff Training Strands we are running the following courses this term: PGRs can book on to all the courses via MyPGR Staff can book using the links provided 16-Jan-20 14:30-16:00 Altmetrics: Tracking engagement beyond citations 17-Jan-20 10:00-11:00 Research Data Mangement: looking after your research material 21-Jan-20 10:00-11:00 Planning your literature search  23-Jan-20 10:00-12:00 Conducting your literature search 27-Jan-20 10:00-12:00 EndNote 31-Jan-20 10:00-12:00 RefWorks (webinar) 03-Feb-20 10:00-12:00 Search Strategies for Systematic Reviews in Life Sciences (webinar) 06-Feb-20 14:00-16:00 Systematic Searching for Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences (webinar) 11-Feb-20 10:00-11:00 What does open access look like in Science & Engineering? 13-Feb-20 14:00-16:00 Finding Grey Literature (webina...

Cuppa, Cake & Games Thursday 19th December 10am-12noon Doctoral College Reading Room, Library Library research Services would like to invite PGRs/ERCs to join us for a Cuppa, Cake & Games. Take a break, and join us for some informal networking and board games in the Doctoral College Reading Room. Drop in any time between 10am-12noon for some fun before the Xmas break.

Web of Science has recently released a new way of searching for authors and curating author profiles. New Author Search Thousands of authors in Web of Science (WoS) Core Collection have been brought together with information from the Clarivate researcher profile service, Publons , and matched up with available researchers and ORCIDs to create new Author Records inside Web of Science. This makes life much easier than before to find publications by a particular author and view their author profile. As you type, the WoS will suggest entries that match the database. For example, if a First Name or initial matches the Surname you have just entered it will suggest these to you as you type, reducing the likelihood of running a search with no results. When a large number of records matches the name you are searching; for example, Cheng, Smith or Lopez, you are presented with country and affiliation options to help narrow down the results. Screenshot from Web of Science New Aut...

Life as a PhD student involves a lot of reading and writing, but however much you're passionate about your topic that reading comes with a certain amount of pressure, as it's related to your research. We also like to encourage students to read and write for pleasure too - take a break and pick up something different... That's why the Library runs: Read at Leicester You can find out more about Read at Leicester Including these upcoming events and more: MINDFULNESS AND THE YELLOW BOOK David Wilson Library Reading Zone THURSDAY 7 NOVEMBER 2019 1.00pm – 3.00pm, drop in anytime! Starting University is a really big event in your life and it’s always a good idea to figure out some mindful practises to keep your mood up and stressors well checked. Pop along and pick up some advice from the University’s Wellbeing staff. You’ll also be able to take away a free copy of the University’s Yellow Book – find out more at: https://rethinkyourmind.co.uk/uni-of-leicester-yell...

Tools and tips that help shave precious minutes off a laborious workflow appeal to most humans who spend much of their working day at a computer. Thanks to open-source software and code sharing platforms, such as Github  and Snipplr , innovative tools can be developed quickly, built upon and often made available completely for free. This post highlights four useful tools that can help researchers quickly find and evaluate open access (OA) literature. All are freely available extensions for your internet browser, however, it's worth noting that I have only tested them in Chrome-based browsers. If you're a user of other browsers such as Safari, Internet Explorer or Firefox there might be other equivalent services available. For a more in-depth analysis and demonstration of these and other browser extensions, I recommend reading Aaron Tay's blog post from June and July of this year. Let's get started... Google Scholar Button It might sound an obvious ch...

By Grant Denkinson, open access lead in Library Research Services.  Here are some trends I’ve spotted that might suggest some Open Access futures: Traditional formats still exist While innovation moves on, current and traditional forms of knowledge exchange continue to be useful and preferred by some and so are likely to continue. Plan S Various policy initiatives are happening, such as Plan S , which involves some national research funding organisations supported by the European Commission and the European Research Council (ERC) as cOAlition S. It aims to move us to full and immediate Open Access to research. On 5 November last year, two large funders - Wellcome Trust and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation - endorsed Plan S. Preprints and Post publication peer review Some fields such as mathematics and high-energy physics (arXiv from 1991) have, for a while, embraced a thriving preprint culture where results are made available for debate bef...